Vachagan the Pious is the model Christian king of Caucasian Albania and the most celebrated figure of its sacred history. Movses Dasxurantsi devotes much of his first book to Vachagan's restoration of the faith after a lapse into paganism: he tore down idols, cut the sacred trees, broke the covens of sorcerers and diviners, and had their children educated as Christians, while gathering and enshrining the relics of the martyrs, including those of Grigoris. About 488 he summoned the Council of Aguen, whose canons remain a prime source for Albanian church and social order. A distinct folk-romance cycle grew around him, in which the king, disguised, is won over and instructed by the wise commoner Anahit; sources differ on how much of this legend belongs to the early Tale of Vačʿagan and how much to its nineteenth-century literary reworking.